Laravel First Impressions From A JavaScript Dev
As a JavaScript developer, diving into the world of Laravel was both exciting and daunting. Laravel is a powerful PHP framework that has gained a lot of popularity over the years, and for good reason. It provides a solid foundation for building web applications and has a vibrant and supportive community.
My first impression of Laravel was its impressive documentation. As a developer, having clear and comprehensive documentation is crucial, and Laravel definitely delivers in this area. The documentation is well-organized and easy to navigate, making it simple to get started with the framework.
One of the things that stood out to me as a JavaScript developer was Laravel’s use of Blade, its templating engine. Blade makes it easy to create reusable and modular templates, something that is familiar to me as a JavaScript developer working with frameworks like React or Vue. The syntax is clean and intuitive, and I was able to quickly grasp the basics of Blade templating.
Another aspect of Laravel that impressed me was its built-in authentication system. As a JavaScript developer, I have often had to rely on third-party libraries or implement my own authentication solutions, so having a robust authentication system built into the framework was a pleasant surprise. It saved me a lot of time and provided peace of mind knowing that my application had a secure and reliable authentication system out of the box.
Overall, my first impressions of Laravel as a JavaScript developer have been positive. The framework is well-documented, easy to use, and provides powerful tools and features that make building web applications a joy. I look forward to diving deeper into Laravel and exploring all that it has to offer.
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Looking to learn Laravel and PHP to make an app myself so thank you for reaffirming that decision. Love to see more content in this space.
I am a JavaScript developer working in Laville and it is just not an environment. I enjoy. Next JS feels so intuitive and Laville feels bloated and cumbersome with a lot of extra garbage built-in into every package. Maybe if I built what I’m working on from scratch. It wouldn’t feel so confusing and messy. PHP is aggravating for me. I have been working on learning Go for the backend, and it feels way more intuitive to me.
To summarize, you think PHP is okay/cool/whatever because you can generate a website using some random framework and… it works? I'm not hater, just wanna point that this video is ultra dumb.. dude you didnt even show PHP code 😐
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Inertia abstracts away communication between FE & BE, it's like having a React template, you don't have to worry about doing API calls manually, you build your React/Vue page and inertia takes care of preloading data from the server when the page is rendered and then all updates are done async via special json format. The FE component just takes in the props and renders.
Php is like crypto. It died 400 times but everybody still use it
run npm run dev if you want to see live reload
Looks like my other comment got deleted, probably because it included links outside of Youtube. The gist of my comment was Jeffrey Way is a pillar of the Laravel ecosystem because he created Laracasts (website), which teaches folks on all things Laravel. He know has a Learn Laravel "Path" on /path of his website, that includes a LOT of free content for aspiring Laravel devs. Honestly without his courses, I wouldn't be able to develop the apps I've created in the niche I'm in.
Sorry one more thing… please watch Taylor Otwell's (Laravel's Founder) Laracon US 2023 keynote (here on Youtube) which I'm certain you'll find informative.
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"HMR how cool" hahaha, great video!
People always forget that React was influenced by XHP which is just another way of writing PHP.
Truly outstandingly Honest 👏
React or Vue, Inertia and Laravel, I am amazed with these.
you see laravel root directory structure it tell you a sequence of developing
Laravel is actually cool but php without laravel is not imho XD
I Love PHP.
I've been developing in PHP for 11 years now. Always worked for very small companies so my own opinions on using a framework were never challenged. I thought that using a framework would be severely limiting. About 5 years ago, a dev came on board singing the praises of Laravel. He was right and I haven't looked back.